Re: Can't kill process

From: Vulpes Velox (kitbsdlist2_at_HotPOP.com)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:38:44 -0600
    To: Michael Sig Birkmose <michael@gisp.dk>
    
    

    On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:19:38 +0100 (CET)
    Michael Sig Birkmose <michael@gisp.dk> wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9, and I have a user who somehow
    > managed to get some dead bash processes. I have repeatedly attempted
    > to kill -9 this process without any luck. The way I understood it
    > was that kill -9 was an"offer that the process can't refuce" :) I.e.
    > that the process would be terminated no matter wat by the OS?
    >
    > I tried man kill, and noticed that some shells might have a builtin
    > kill command. Therefore I even tried running /bin/kill explicitly
    > with no further luck.
    >
    > Does anyone have an idea of what I have to do, in order to kill the
    > proces?

    It is zombied most likely...

    man ps and then search for zombie...
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